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Nikhil Das

Product designer @ UBER

Projects

UBER
PICASSO WEB APP

On going

An internal tool to help automate Uber's support mechanisms.

Activity Redesign

On going

Here is behind the scenes story of my work on redesigning Activity for 200+ million users.

Crypto Activity

Sept 2020

PayPal Crypto - Ability to buy, sell and hold cryptocurrencies through our apps.

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Story landing experience

Mar 2020

Humanize payments for people and their moments by receiving meaningful Stories

Experiments

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Info
Resume
Experience

Jan 2022 - Present

PRODUCT DESIGNER 4

UBER

Remote / Bangalore, India

• Spearheading the design for CO -Customer engagement pillar (Jan 22 - Jan 23)
• Led design for the ‘Uber for Business’ Admin dashboard used by 10K organisations worldwide.
(Jan 23 - Present)

Aug 2018 - Dec 2021

UX DESIGNER 3

PAYPAL INDIA PVT LTD

Bangalore, India

• Spearheading the design for PayPal's Activity

used by 160M monthly users

• $6.90 million saved in CVR in 2020

• New design solutions for 1.5 million users

Redesign Activity

• Conducted user research to identify the pain

points costing the company $70M

• Conducted design sprints and user testing

sessions on concepts in San Jose research

lab

• Collaborated with Analytics, Content,

Engineering, and Product teams

ETA tracker for transactions:

•Introduced trackers for pending and refund

transactions

• $2.12 million in total cost savings

• 13.12% contact rates reduction

Search for App (Android and iOS):

• Designed search and suggestion experience

• 154,000 search feature adoptions in 7 days

Oct 2014 - Jul 2018

UX DESIGN SPECIALIST

VERIZON INDIA PVT LTD

Chennai, India

Unified user interface: Created a new-look

Task Management System for our global

network and technology users

Site survey: Built a hybrid mobile app with

enhanced navigation and tactile interaction for site surveys

VNF marketplace: Designed a Virtual Network. Function onboarding portal for vendors, maintenance engineer, and orchestrator

Education

IDC, IIT MUMBAI

Jun 2012 - Jun 2014

Mumbaii, India

As a Master in Industrial design student, I

worked on many interesting on-ground

projects such as:

• Accessibility system for Ajanta caves

(UNESCO heritage site)

• Household Aquaponics system

• Study in terracotta handicrafts at

Shantiniketan, West Bengal.

UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT

Jun 2005 - Jun 2009

Calicut, India

B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering

Skills

TOOLS

• Sketch

• Adobe Creative Suite

• Framer

• Balsamiq

• Invision & Invision Studio

• 3D Modeling tools

PROCESS

• Low to high fidelity design & prototyping

• Personas creation

• Sketching

• Storyboarding

• Wireframing

• User research & Usability testing

• Motion design with After Effects & In Studio

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